LudvigVanHassen

This is true too. And the majority of Facebook users I know unfollow people who post political topics.

It is about the circles.

I think this is an important point indeed. A piece of this puzzle, in my opinion, is that people are not taught this at home anymore. Most familes have both parents working full time and they're exhausted after work. Their kids are raised in daycare and neglected. And so many are raised in divorced/broken/separated/single parent households that compound the problem much more.

Furthermore, most of the US isn't religious anymore. These values and maxims mentioned above are not taught to people anymore, at least not to the degree that they were in the past.

A piece of this should be better training in the home for kids on how to understand the internet. To avoid being hateful and to question things. But so many kids are left to their own devices without parental oversight on this subject. I've even heard the call recently that parents want high schools and colleges to start teaching courses on how to avoid harmful content and misinformation online.

In what feels like ancient history, this used to be the parent's job, before both spouses were working full time.

Our kids and the younger generation suffer from lacking parental instruction on this.

The hypothetical "most people" in this statement would be dreadfully, dreadfully wrong if they think it would all turn out fine. They are vastly under estimating how much the modern world, in literally almost any aspect you can imagine, is reliant on fossil fuels.

No idea. This sholdn't be downvoted.

Welcome to the modern world...

There is quite a lot of humor in this statement. ;)

This post should not be downvoted. These are legitimate concerns for half the US population. Whoever is poo-pooing this may disagree with these lies presented above. But again, you have half the US population who really DOES have a problem with these lies. And your solution is to just downvote the post and offer no response?

The 3-5 year clinical trial like all of the previous vaccines.

Agreed. NPR it VERY left biased and it's damn evident.

And it's a damning realization at that. Nevertheless, it seems to be true.

How do we maintain the emphasis on free speech with our higher fragmented population who have WIDELY varying beliefs and little shared culture?

Or they were kids and too young to comment or understand the situation. I would have protested then if I were an adult with my life understanding now.

And this is a dogshit simplistic way to view the world that leads to our. Social media and all of this tribalism makes all American dumber. It's removing our ability to understand and appreciate nuance and learning how to get along with those who think differently.

Frogpelt has an understanding that so many lack. I wish there was some way for this middle ground to speak and make itself now.

This "tribal" devolution of everything to two sides on an issue with interlocking viewpoints on all subjects is a major problem in our current climate.

I agree the nuance of this situation is lost when there are so many people who do not see the nuance to begin with.

A culture that cannot understand nuance is a culture more likely to go to war. To see others as "other", not seeking common ground, but seeing things that differ as reasons to hate

This last point and the new york times article are a great example of this corruption and corporate interests.

The bastards at the helm CANNOT be trusted.

Also, all of these vaccines that ARE mandated for children against said horrible and deadly diseases were tested for YEARS prior to becoming mandatory to ensure that they are safe for children.

It is impossible to have that dataset for the COVID vaccines. The time has not elapsed yet. The trials have not been done. They are rushing to approve them in a sense of emergency, which I do understand. I do also acknowledge that the data so far is promising! I certainly hope that the vaccines are safe for children and that we can use these going forward in the future.

But I want the process followed; the full 3-5 year trial test before these are mandated. The emergency push for this towards children would be different if COVID was killing the same % of children that it kills the very old. But the data is overwhelming clear the world over: children do not die from COVID; well over 99% have no deaths or long term issues.